Jail-Based Competency Restoration
1 Hour | 1 CE
This on-demand professional training program on Jail-Based Competency Restoration is presented by Lauren Kois, PhD.
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Throughout this interactive program, participants explore various models and protocols currently implemented across different jurisdictions, gaining valuable insights into program structure, implementation strategies, and effectiveness. We critically examine the promising but limited research on this complex service delivery model. Participants evaluate the complex relationships between clinical needs, security requirements, systemic constraints, and ethical dilemmas. Whether participants are currently involved in jail-based restoration or preparing to implement such services, this program offers valuable insights into current practices and emerging trends.
This program is designed for mental health professionals seeking to delve into the complexities and challenges of providing competency restoration services within jail settings.
Program Topic Areas
- Clinical Need x Safety and Security Matrix
- Statistical trends in restoration success rates
- Critical analysis of the literature and its limitations
- Population, eligibility criteria, "dose," fidelity, etc.
- Security constraints, coordination with differing objectives
- Jail and defendant "fit"
- Jail resources
- Medication is not JBCR
- Forensic literacy
- The "ramp up" model (CA DSH EASS)
- The "pod" model
- The "mobile/mental health unit" model
- Medication is not JBCR
- The general population model
- Interactive Poll: What is do-able at your facility?
- Intellectual disability, serious mental illness, language barriers
- Key performance indicators
- Documentation requirements, coordination, challenges
- Ethics of JBCR
- The good, the bad, and the gray
- Interactive Poll: Ethics of JBCR
- Summary
- Q&A
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe jail-based competency restoration empirical research
Describe differing models and protocols for jail-based competency restoration
Describe risks, benefits, and ethical considerations associated with jail-based competency restoration
Presented By
Lauren Kois, PhD
Dr. Kois is a clinical and forensic psychologist whose research, clinical, and consulting activities center on forensic mental health services and systems, specifically those concerning competence to stand trial and the "competence crisis," as well as mental state at the time of the offense (i.e., s...
Curriculum
1. JBCR's Place in the "Competence Crisis"
2. A Need for New Models
3. Conceptualizing Restoration Needs
4. What JBCR Is and Is Not
5. What the Research Tells Us So Far
6. Case Study - Alabama's REACH
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CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.